guitarscn
26th April 2008, 01:40
I picked Handbrake as my program of choice after experimenting with multiple options because it has presets where I don't have to make any manual adjustments because I have no clue about what 'bitrates' mean and whatnot, and it also takes its time to encode for the fullest and best quality instead of those other programs that take a few hours and the result isn't the best quality compared to the results I've seen on Handbrake.
Anyway, I have a VIDEO_TS directory with a bunch of .VOB, files as well as a couple of .IFO and .BUP ones. I've already figured out the .VOB files were the main video files, but anyway I clicked on the VIDEO_TS directory and it loaded fine.
I saved it to a different folder as a name and chose avi format below the name I chose and saved that.
Then I clicked on the "Constant Quality Rate" preset because I think it's the best next to "Bedlam" but as the Handbrake wiki describes, "Bedlam" is too insane for me (as I need to encode several DVDs and on my cheap, slow processor, 400+ hours is not a time I can wait for one video to encode).
So after setting "Constant Quality Rate", I wanted one 2 GB file so I set the "Target Size" in the "Video" tab under the "Quality" section of it to 2,000 or so. Then I clicked "Start" because I don't know what any of the other settings mean.
After about a whole day (~24 hours), the end result was great quality. But there were two major issues:
1) No audio at all whatsoever
2) I cannot scan/navigate through the video. (Like on the timer scale in my media player, it moves along to the right as the video plays, but if I try to click in the middle to skip to the middle of the movie, it just freezes for like forever.)
But other than these 2 problems, the quality was awesome, the resolution was perfect just like on the DVD (as well as the aspect ratio), and I was very happy it was DVD quality but compressed into 2 GB.
I have K-Lite Media Codecs installed with the most codecs support so I think I have all the right codecs (I could be wrong though).
How can I fix these issues?
Anyway, I have a VIDEO_TS directory with a bunch of .VOB, files as well as a couple of .IFO and .BUP ones. I've already figured out the .VOB files were the main video files, but anyway I clicked on the VIDEO_TS directory and it loaded fine.
I saved it to a different folder as a name and chose avi format below the name I chose and saved that.
Then I clicked on the "Constant Quality Rate" preset because I think it's the best next to "Bedlam" but as the Handbrake wiki describes, "Bedlam" is too insane for me (as I need to encode several DVDs and on my cheap, slow processor, 400+ hours is not a time I can wait for one video to encode).
So after setting "Constant Quality Rate", I wanted one 2 GB file so I set the "Target Size" in the "Video" tab under the "Quality" section of it to 2,000 or so. Then I clicked "Start" because I don't know what any of the other settings mean.
After about a whole day (~24 hours), the end result was great quality. But there were two major issues:
1) No audio at all whatsoever
2) I cannot scan/navigate through the video. (Like on the timer scale in my media player, it moves along to the right as the video plays, but if I try to click in the middle to skip to the middle of the movie, it just freezes for like forever.)
But other than these 2 problems, the quality was awesome, the resolution was perfect just like on the DVD (as well as the aspect ratio), and I was very happy it was DVD quality but compressed into 2 GB.
I have K-Lite Media Codecs installed with the most codecs support so I think I have all the right codecs (I could be wrong though).
How can I fix these issues?